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Show The color orlbtf sina in the Yarioua races of man has never yet been scientifically scien-tifically accounted for, although numerous numer-ous mythological 6tories have been told and senseless theories advanced as reasons rea-sons for the remarkable variations in hue. Nor have we any certain data concerning the color of the cuticle of the primeval man, the original "lord of creation." A pretty African legend is that he was as black as the proverbial prover-bial ace of spades and that the present pale color of the Caucasian race is the result of tbe scare God gave Adam at the time of the fall. It is proper to state here that the eame legend says that the present black race are descendants of one of Adam's eons that was born and left Eden before tho great change in color overtook our first parents. Tho Chinese believe that the original man was a creature half god and half man, and that his color came about as a result of bathing in a river of liquid gold. The Mussulmans, the American Indians and several oriental ori-ental tribes and nations account for their prevailing red or copper color by telling the Btory of the great being creating cre-ating the first pair from red kaolin, the common fire clay of the potter shops. Exchange. |